Who We Are

The Ascot agency is about finding more friends for your organisation. We also help you to turn those friends into prospects, and opportunities. Our work takes place mostly in the learning, HR and technology sectors. But we also work closely with charities to help drive their employee knowledge programmes.

Our services are founded on our skills, knowledge and experience of the HR and learning marketplaces. Our creative teams apply their talents across the marketing spectrum to provide super-smart social media campaigns, beautiful web sites and successful conferences and exhibitions.

Blog

An ex-boss of mine’s favourite quote was ‘people buy from people’. This irritated the life out of me. Not just because of its glib unsupported simplicity – though that was irritating enough. But rather because I was (at the time) personally steeped in complex marketing ideologies and sales techniques. His version of the world made […]

Last week’s inaugural trip was a pretty intense learning experience for me and I’m only now just getting my thoughts in order. Quite a few speakers I’ve seen recently at this and other events have referenced making time for reflection, so instead of firing off a quick summary blog, I’ve tried to really reflect on […]

I should be packing right now but instead I thought I’d share a few things I’m looking forward to at this week’s HR Tech Europe event. I’ll be tweeting and blogging on Thursday and Friday this week and hope to bring a flavour of what’s happening, what’s new and what’s exciting to those not there […]

The latest buzzwords on the street seems to be ‘wearable technology’. Gadgets like the Fitbit and the Nike fuel band are suddenly in getting us out of our chairs and shaking a leg (or arm) in an effort to bump up our exercise points. Some will see this as a victory for gamification. The Nike […]